"And it's fascinating that, in these low-energy environments, life seems to be slowed down, sometimes to an absolute minimum. Based on estimates, some subsurface cells divide an average of once ...

The interplay between microbes and their natural habitats – microbial ecology, life in extreme environments and the limits of life, diversity of habitats, symbioses between microbes and higher ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

There has been significant debate over when early hominins acquired the adaptability to survive in extreme environments ... area with characteristic plant life evident. The archaeological data ...

Extremophiles are organisms that live in extreme environments. These places have conditions outside of the normal range that most life can live in. Deserts are extreme environments because of the ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

in the search for life elsewhere in the universe), life in extreme environments, the origin and nature of life on the early earth and the role/availability of specific trace metals to the evolution of ...

We are particulary interested in the genetics of the bacteria living in those environments and the interactions between different microbes and between microbes and bioactive molecules present in the ...